Sixty years ago this week, officials opened the Embarcadero Freeway. While never beloved — The Chronicle’s editorial board called for the “foolish freeway” to be demolished only six months in — it ...

The Embarcadero Freeway, an elevated concrete double-decker, once walled off almost a mile of this shore. Built in the late 1950s, it brutally isolated the century-old port buildings and historic wood ...